Jim Bird

Jim is an experienced CTO, software development manager and project manager, who has worked on high-performance, high-reliability mission-critical systems for many years, as well as building software development tools. His current interests include scaling Lean and Agile software development methodologies, software security and software assurance.

Software Development
Jim BirdApril 20th, 2015
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Backdoors, Sabotage or Just Plain Stupidity
Someone on your development team, or a contractor or a consultant, or one of your sys admins, or a bad…
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DevOps
Jim BirdApril 10th, 2015
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Towards Compliance as Code
Infrastructure as Code is fundamental to DevOps. Automating the work of setting up and maintaining systems infrastructure. Making it defined,…
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Software Development
Jim BirdMarch 24th, 2015
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Making Refactoring Work
A recent academic study raises some questions about how useful and how important refactoring really is. The researchers found that…
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Agile
Jim BirdMarch 6th, 2015
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Putting Security into Sprints
To build a secure app, you can’t wait to the end and hope to “test security in”. For teams who…
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DevOps
Jim BirdMarch 3rd, 2015
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DevOps is not a Race
Most of what we read about or hear about in DevOps emphases speed. Continuous Deployment. Fast feedback. Fail fast, fail…
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Software Development
Jim BirdFebruary 13th, 2015
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Don’t waste time tracking technical debt
For the last couple of years we’ve been tracking technical debt in our development backlog. Adding debt payments to the…
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Enterprise Java
Jim BirdJanuary 30th, 2015
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Required Reading: Iron Clad Java
They didn’t teach appsec in Comp Sci or in engineering or MIS or however you learned how to program. And…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJanuary 29th, 2015
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If you got bugs, you’ll get pwned
The SEI recently published some fascinating research which shows a clear relationship between software quality and software security. The consensus…
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Software Development
Jim BirdJanuary 15th, 2015
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We can’t measure Programmer Productivity… or can we?
If you go to Google and search for “measuring software developer productivity” you will find a whole lot of nothing.…
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